Rice paddy or shrimp pond: Tough decisions in Rural Thailand

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2045-2060

  Flaherty, Mark ^a   Vandergeest, Peter ^b   Miller, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asia; Environment policy; Shrimp aquaculture; Thailand

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; RICE; SHRIMP CULTURE;

THAILAND;

EID: 0033430189     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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